Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] XTOL Mixing
From: "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 19:55:22 -0400
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Marc:

Up here in Canada Xtol cost $14 CAD ($8.75 USD) for five litres.  It seems 
pretty cheap and unless your hobby is photographic chemistry, it doesn't 
look like their would be much savings in mixing it yourself.

Regards,

Robert


At 04:35 PM 2/17/2002 -0500, Marc James Small wrote:
>That noted authority, bon vivant, and Renaissance man, Richard Knoppow, has
>pointed out that the formula for XTOL is available by checking its patent,
>USP 5,756,271, at http://www.uspto.gov
>
>I would be interested in figuring out exactly how to accomplish this.  I've
>not researched the availability of a few of the more exotic chemicals set
>out in the patent, but I suspect these are available from folks such as
>Fisher Scientific in the US and similar houses in other nations.
>
>Any thoughts, camera dudes?
>
>Marc
>
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +276/343-7315
>Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!
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